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The Lane County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted on a tentative denial for an application to dig a long-planned, controversial gravel quarry on an Oakridge-area butte. Commissioners voted 3-2 against amending the Lane County Rural Comprehensive Plan to add a quarry to the inventory of significant mineral and aggregate sites and authorize mining there. Oakridge-area residents have fought to protect the site, commonly known as TV Butte, from mining operations since it was proposed in 20...

Description Surface or "strip mining" is modern technology at its peak of development. The hills of East Kentucky, rich in deposits of coal, have in a few brief years been laid bare in the race to secure the minerals to provide energy, power and wealth. This process has left behind poverty and degradation and a seemingly total disregard for the worth of the land itself. The industries which have perfected these methods of extraction have paid little attention to restoration. Bu...

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out whats clicking today in entertainment. The last active original member of the classic Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd was recovering Saturday night after recently undergoing an emergency heart procedure, according to the band. Guitarist Gary Rossington, 69, who has been playing with the band since its earliest days in Jacksonville, Florida, was resting at home with his family and expecting "a full recovery," the band...

Fitness centers and gyms see a resurgence in membership as mask regulations go down Alexis Oatman, cleveland.com © John Kuntz, cleveland.com/John Kuntz, cleveland.com Members of one of the youth boxing clinics at 2 Tone Boxing Club in Beachwood hit the heavy bag, June 9, 2021. Gyms and fitness centers have seen a resurge of memberships as the mask regulations lift in Ohio. CLEVELAND, Ohio — In mid-March of last year, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ordered gyms and fitness to close t...

1. The three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who wrote Ronnie Van Zant and Ed King was from California. And the song was recorded in Georgia. 2. The "Guinness Book of World Records". . . as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time. 3. Technically its illegal to mail used underwear to a pervert who bought them from you . . . federal law bans, quote, "mailing indecent and filthy substances." You could even get up to five years in prison. 4. The word "pandemonium" comes from John Miltons...

Bird scooters to be booted out of Santa Monica May. 11, 2021 at 5:28 pm 4 hours agoNo tags Bird’s new Community Pricing Program looks to provide an affordable, safe alternative to public transit during the pandemic. Local reisdents can email access@bird.co if they wish to participate this month. Courtesy photo. Bird e-scooters are getting their wings clipped. The Santa Monica-based company has not been selected to participate in the City’s second shared mobility pilot program and will have...

The first time the Old Hazeldell Quarry was proposed to the Lane County Board of Commissioners, there was a conservative majority leading the governing body.  Five years and three new commissioners later, the board is once again deciding whether to OK the permit for the project backed by Ed King of King Estate. The board is limited in its ability to deny the permit, but in the past few weeks the majority of public comments have been calling on the commissioners to axe the quarry project, espec...

Election petition sponsor Ed King Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - In the wake of the Juneau Assemblys decision this week to proceed with by mail elections in the future, comes a petition that calls for the public to weigh in first with an advisory vote. Ed King is one of the sponsors.  "Its really just a way to make sure that the community is on board with the changes that the Assembly is proposing to make to our election system.  I think  there is no ...

Report: California ranks 4th among states with highest wildfire risk for 2021 FAIRFIELD — Residents of the Vacaville hills are slowly working to recover from the devastating LNU Lightning Complex Fire that claimed two lives and more than 300 homes in August. Now a report issued by Lending Tree’s QuoteWizard indicates that 77% of California is experiencing severe drought conditions and 15% of the state’s properties are at extreme risk of a wildfire in 2021. That is nearly 3.71 million prop...

Apr 23, 2021 Japan’s new target of a 46% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels — a 77% improvement on the previous goal — may be a giant step forward, but it’s still not enough for Tokyo to achieve its goal of net zero by 2050, experts say. Addressing 40 world leaders at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Thursday that Japan will take a leadership role on climate change by striving towa...